Why are so many humans (myself included) afraid of spiders? Arachnophobia consistently lands in the top 10 most-common phobias. Why? Especially when there aren’t *that* many deadly species of them? Why spiders over other animals?
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I’ve heard that things are perceived as scarier the less human-like they are. Like snakes and spiders. Spiders are all legs, dark, make sudden movements, And you can’t see their face
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